Hi guys,
I have no experience whatsoever with unity, but after having my doubts clarified with the mono runtime security, I’m deciding to use this.
So is it unreasonable to expect to write a good game within a week? I’m a fast learner. What do you think?
It’s unreasonable. Game development ain’t like dustin’ crops, boy.
Well I have watched the ball roll tutorial and space invaders game and pretty much sure I can bang that one out. The 3D games with rigged characters is more of an issue, next week we shall see but I’ve set myself that goal.
It depends on how you define “good game”.
What is the rush? Why 1 week? Admittedly most of my projects have been 1 to 3 weeks just because I prefer small scope get in get it done and move on projects. It is a great way to push yourself to maximize your design & development speed.
But… it doesn’t seem the same to do that at the very beginning before you have kind of foundation to build on.
Is there some deadline like making a game for someone’s birthday or something like that?
No deadline, I just like to set myself hard tasks to complete 
Better than at least 90% of the games posted in the WIP section, they’re atrocious 
Someone could in theory make a good game in a week but most likely it will be shit. Superhot, Receiver, gods will be watching you might be able to make an interesting prototype but thats about it really.
So go ahead and do it instead of messing about on forum.
Hey I’ve got a week, that’s plenty of time to spare five minutes on this forum
You should be making games because you enjoy the process, not because you crave the end result. If you just want to hurry up and get it over with, then you are neither going to enjoy your life over that week, nor produce a very good result.
These are fair points, but I like to measure my progress with set goals. It probably is unreasonable to expect to create a good game in a week. But I did look at the tutorials to see what I’m up against. In my head I can see it’s possible.
But perhaps that is because I’m a super fast learner.
Just work out some ideas, and dive in and make a game. efficiency and speed will come with experience with the api.
I’m also a very fast learner, but I don’t think you could make a “good” game in a week.
A “decent” game. Maybe, I started with nothing, I’ve gotten decently far in a short amount of time,
If I hadn’t dedicated to a more complex project I could have knocked out a more simple game within a week. However, it would have been somewhat shallow.
You can make something resembling a game in a week, even without knowledge, there’s enough documentation to be able to knock something out, but it’s going to be shallow. If you want to flesh it out, you need to spend time on it.
I can write a good game in about an hour. There would not be much game though 
Anyway Ludum Dare proves that Unity is more than capable of producing a good game in a few days. The question is, are you?
Well, again, you need to define “good”.
For me a good game has depth, which you cannot rush. But others may differ in their opinions and ideals.
Tetris is good. A line of sight burglar sim is good. I define good by if I’m enjoying it.
If that’s true, then why are you here looking for our validation that it is possible? Do like Hippo said and make the game. You may think “5 minutes doesn’t matter”, but now it’s ten minutes. And soon it will be an hour. Forums are a time suck. And a week is a very short time frame unless you have a very loose definition of either the word “good” or the word “game.”
I think anyone here with experience will tell you that there is never enough time. You’ll be wanting those 10 minutes back. Ignoring the advice that a weeks time table with no experience will likely set you up for disappointment is one thing, but subsequently squandering some of that week trying to convince us (or yourself) otherwise is another thing entirely.
Leave the forums for a week and go make your game. I frequently disappear from here for week or more at a time. If you enjoy hanging around forums more than you enjoy making games, then again, you are going to be in for a rough week.
If you look at badass inc thats an incredible game made in 2 days.
http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-32/?action=preview&uid=2982
Wow if ludumdare’s game is what you guys define as good judging by the graphics, put me down as this being 100% possible. Sorry if I offended anyone.
Prototype do you have screenshots, and what exactly was your progress in time.
Can’t wait to see what you’ve done by next friday. If it’s not very good after your lofty claims, you’re to blame